The Bachelors

The Bachelors (2017) is a quiet drama starring J.K. Simmons and Julie Delpy — watch online on iFILM. A widower uproots himself and his teenage son and moves across the country to Los Angeles, trading familiar grief for an unfamiliar city and a teaching post at a private school. The plan is a fresh start. What he gets is something messier and more real.

His son Will has shut down completely, until a classmate with her own bruised history slowly pulls him back into the world. The father finds himself drawn to a French colleague — played with sharp wit by Julie Delpy — in a dynamic he never expected to be in again. Simmons does what Simmons does: he carries the whole emotional weight with almost no visible effort. Josh Wiggins holds his own.

Director Kurt Voelker keeps the tone restrained. No swelling score, no neat resolutions. Just two people learning to let someone in, at the same uncertain pace. Stream The Bachelors (2017) online on iFILM.